Cindy Gordon

Cindy has been a Rehabilitation Practitioner for over 25 years and has worked with people with a multitude of disabilities. The past twenty years have focused on hearing loss. She has been profoundly Hard of Hearing since her youth, and pioneered peer-to-peer counselling by establishing the Hard of Hearing Resource Services at the University of Alberta (1990). She is actively involved in the Hard of Hearing Community and received the 2010 Mayor's Award and 2004 Alberta Premier's Council "Gary McPherson Award of Excellence" for her leadership work on issues of inclusion for persons with disabilities. Cindy is certified in Audiometric Technology and Conflict Resolution, and has been facilitating cross disability workshops for the last 20 years.